"Nâzım Hikmet Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet () was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the ""lyrical flow of his statements"". Described as a ""romantic communist"" and ""romantic revolutionary"", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. According to Nâzım Hikmet, he was of paternal Turkish and maternal German, Polish, Georgian descent. Nâzım Hikmet's mother came from a distinguished, cosmopolitan family"
"meticulous lyrics of love, Ottoman grandeur, and Istanbul's natural attractions. Among the dedicated revolutionaries in 20th-century Turkish poetry Nazim Hikmet ranks the highest. He has been a modernizing force since the early 1920s, remaining significant in aesthetics and political terms. A communist, he spent many years in Turkish jails, fled to Soviet Union in 1951 and died in Moscow in 1963. Much of his works laments social injustice, complains of the oppression of the masses, and yearns for revolutionary change. In the mid-1950s a brave new genre emerged the 'Village novel' which reached its apogee with Yasar Kemal's ""Ince Memed"""
"Nazim Hikmet was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages, plays have been staged in several countries gaining huge popularity. Nazim Hikmet’s first book of poetry was “Song of the Sun-drinkers”, published in Baku in 1928. Many of his works have been translated into English, including ""Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse"" (2009), ""Things I Didn’t Know I Loved"" (1975), ""The Day Before Tomorrow"" (1972), ""The Moscow Symphony"" (1970), and ""Selected Poems"" (1967). In 1936"
"intellectual properties of works was Syrian poet Adonis, who is currently living in France. The second winner of ""International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award"" was Aime Cesaire from Martinique in 1997. He won this award for explaining in detail the longing for freedom and equality of all oppressed people in the twentieth century. The third winner of ""International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award"" was the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in 2003. Then a next winner was the Danish poet Erik Stinus in 2009. Erik Stinus moves his readers away from the ironic character of Danish poetry. On the other hand, Stinus is"
"he met privately with Turkey’s most famous 20th-century poet, the exiled Communist Nâzım Hikmet, who he later recalled advised him to ‘stay away from politics and politicians.’ His work on such occasions seems to have been a combination of promoting awareness of the colonial situation of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet Union and trying to identify Soviet infiltrators and agents. From the end of 1959 until 1971, Nazar worked in the American Embassy in Ankara. Shortly after his arrival in Turkey, there was a military coup in Ankara on 27 May 1960 and one of its leading figures, Colonel"
"literature has been between the proponents of art for art's sake and the advocates of commitment to realism and social causes. Mustafa Kemal in a conversation that took place in 1921, about two years before he proclaimed the Republic, exhorted the 19 years old Nazim Hikmet, already a famous poet, who would soon embrace the communist ideology and influence the course of modern Turkish literature, particularly poetry, more profoundly than anyone else. Since 1950, there has been a massive output, in all genres, depicting the plight of the lumpen proletariat. But surrealism, neosymbolism, theater of the absurd, stream of consciousness,"
"Hayim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik (; January 6, 1873 – July 4, 1934), also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to the breath of new life in Jewish life. Bialik ultimately came to be recognized as Israel's national poet. Bialik was born in , Zhitomir Oblast, Volhynian Governorate in the Russian Empire to Itzik-Yosef Bialik, a scholar and businessman from Zhitomir, and his wife Dinah-Priveh. He had"
"sasvim lično"" (""Personal, very personal""), ""Noć i pola vijeka"" (""A night and half a century"", 1978) and ""Knjaževska kancelarija"" (The Prince's Office). He also wrote the novel ""Pejsaži i nešto se dešava"" (""The landscape and something happens"", 1968). His poetry at first was very socially engaged, critical and polemical towards social reality, while in the later songs predominate landscape and homeland motifs and reflection on youth, the passage of time and fate. His poems have been translated in many languages, and he himself translated works from Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish and Macedonian authors, including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Akhmatova and Nazim Hikmet."
"national Turkist political thought. Nâzım Hikmet's maternal grandmother, Leyla Hanım, was the daughter of Mehmet Ali Pasha, of French (Huguenot) and German origin, and Ayşe Sıdıka Hanım who was a daughter of Çerkes Hafız Paşa. His uncle, Enver Celalettin Pasha, was a member of the Ottoman Army General Staff. Nâzım Hikmet and Celile Hanım's cousins included Oktay Rifat Horozcu, a leading Turkish poet, and the statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy, among others. Ran was born on 15 January 1902, in Selânik (Salonica), where his father was serving as an Ottoman government official. He attended the Taşmektep Primary School in the Göztepe"
")Heemaal Taa Naaegrai ( Heemaal and Naagraaj ), Shuhul Kull ( The Shady Tree ) and Bombur Taa yamberzal( Bumble Bee And The Narcissus Flower), the most popular being ""Bombur Taa yamberzal"", which was the first opera to be published in Kashmiri. ""Me Chhum Aash Paghich"" (""I am hopeful of tomorrow"") is the most powerful Anti war poem in Kashmiri which Nadim wrote. He died on 7 April 1988. Dinanath Nadim Dinanath Nadim (1916–1988) was a prominent Kashmiri poet of the 20th century. He was born on 18 March 1916 in Srinagar city and with him began an era of"
"Därdemänd Zakir Sadíq ulı Rämiev (1859–1921, [zæˈkir ræˈmiʲəf], Tatar: Закир Садыйк улы Рәмиев, Russian: Закир Садыкович Рамеев, Zakir Ramiyev) who used the pen name Därdemänd or Derdmend (Tatar: Дәрдмәнд, [dærdˈmænd]) was a famous Tatar poet, manufacturer and patron of arts. He was a founder of the newspaper ""Vakit"" (""Waqıt"") and the literary magazine ""Şura"".[1] He is a major representative of classical Tatar literature. Because he came from an affluent family of the tzarist regime, he was persecuted by the Soviet administration and intentionally ignored as a poet, and his name and works were deleted from literary histories. His father was"
"""Narman"", a word meaning ""hermaphrodite"" or ""half-man, half-woman"" in Persian. It met immediate controversy in Pakistan and had to be distributed underground; even the printer of the book, belatedly realizing its contents, was reported to shout, ""Take these unholy and dirty books away from me, or I'll set them on fire!"" However, its frankness inspired a younger generation of Pakistani poets to write ""honest"" poetry, a genre becoming known as ""narmani"" poetry. He later released ""Myrmecophile"" in 2000, and ""Abdoz"" in 2005. Ifti Nasim Ifti Nasim (1946 – July 22, 2011) was a gay Pakistani American poet. Having moved to"
"behind Shakespeare and Laozi. He is particularly known for his book ""The Prophet"" (1923), which has been translated into more than twenty different languages and is the second best selling book in the 20th century behind the Bible. Ameen Rihani was a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. Mikha'il Na'ima is widely recognized as one of the most important figures in modern Arabic letters and one of the most important spiritual writers of the 20th century. Several contemporary Lebanese writers have also achieved international success;"
"at the National Museum and a gala night at the opera in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan. Attended by scholars and members of the Rameev family, the commemoration ended by various other ceremonies in Yulik and Zirgen. Därdemänd Zakir Sadíq ulı Rämiev (1859–1921, [zæˈkir ræˈmiʲəf], Tatar: Закир Садыйк улы Рәмиев, Russian: Закир Садыкович Рамеев, Zakir Ramiyev) who used the pen name Därdemänd or Derdmend (Tatar: Дәрдмәнд, [dærdˈmænd]) was a famous Tatar poet, manufacturer and patron of arts. He was a founder of the newspaper ""Vakit"" (""Waqıt"") and the literary magazine ""Şura"".[1] He is a major representative of classical Tatar literature."
"Gyanja. In world Orientalism the dominant view was to consider Nizami as a representative of Persian literature. Soviet Orientalists also held the same view till the late 1930s. According to encyclopedic dictionaries published in Russia , Nizami was a Persian poet and a descendant of city of Qom in central Iran (this fact was subsequently questioned and the contemporary scientists tend to consider Gyanja as his birthplace) . Thus, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary states (the author of the article is Agafangel Krimsky): The best Persian romantic poet (1141–1203) is a descendant of Qom but has a nickname 'Gyanjevi'"
"He produced many books of seminal literary and critical importance as well as series of lectures and essays (such as ""Modern Letters"") in the general press. Alamgir Hashmi Alamgir Hashmi (Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی), also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi (born November 15, 1951), is an English poet of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical acclaim and popularity. He was a practicing transnational humanist and educator in North American, European and Asian universities. He argued for a ""comparative"" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of reading the"
"Janissaries. Sheikh Bedreddin continues to be known in Turkey, especially among socialists, communists, and other political leftists. In the twentieth century, he was brought back into the spotlight by the communist Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet, who wrote ""The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin"" to voice opposition to the rise of fascism in the 1930s. Hikmet's work popularized Bedreddin as a historical champion of socialism and an opponent of fascist tyranny, and his name has remained well known to those on the left of the political spectrum. His bones were exhumed in 1924, but his devotees were so fearful of a backlash"
"to express patriotic themes couched in the syllabic meter associated with Turkish folk poetry. The first radical step away from this trend was taken by Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who—during his time as a student in the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1924—was exposed to the modernist poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, which inspired him to start writing verse in a less formal style. At this time, he wrote the poem """"Açların Gözbebekleri"""" (""Pupils of the Hungry""), which introduced free verse into the Turkish language for, essentially, the first time. Much of Nâzım Hikmet's poetry subsequent to this breakthrough would"
"Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (; , ), was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as ""Requiem"" (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck"
"Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (; , ), was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as ""Requiem"" (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck"
"women writers. She also translated the works of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shaikh Ayaz from Sindhi to Urdu. Fahmida Riaz fled General Zia-ul Haq's religious tyranny and sought refuge in India and spent seven years there. The poems from her collection ""Apna Jurm Sabit Hae"" reflect her homeland's experience under the dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq. By reputation, Riaz stands alongside Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Fahmida Riaz was born on 28 July 1946 in a literary family of Meerut, UP, of British India. Her father, Riaz-ud-Din Ahmed, was a educationist, who had been involved"
"the literary technique known as ""stream of consciousness"", best exemplified in his famous work ""Ulysses"". Joyce also wrote ""Finnegans Wake"", ""Dubliners"", and the semi-autobiographical ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"". ""Ulysses"", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. ""Finnegans Wake"" is written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin. Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born in Dublin but later moved to France. He wrote thereafter in French and English."
"Alamgir Hashmi Alamgir Hashmi (Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی), also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi (born November 15, 1951), is an English poet of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical acclaim and popularity. He was a practicing transnational humanist and educator in North American, European and Asian universities. He argued for a ""comparative"" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of reading the classical and modern texts and emphasized the sublime nature, position and pleasures of language arts to be shared, rejecting their reduction to social or professional utilities."
"Mikha'il Na'ima Mīḫāˀīl Nuˁayma (also spelled Mikhail Naimy; Arabic: ميخائيل نعيمة) (Baskinta, Lebanon 1889- Beirut, 1988) was a Lebanese author famous for his spiritual writings, notably ""The Book of Mirdad"". He is widely recognized as one of the most important figures in modern Arabic letters and one of the most important spiritual writers of the 20th century. A poet, novelist and philosopher, Naimy co-founded, along with Kahlil Gibran and others, the New York literary society known as the Pen League Na'ima completed his secondary education in the Baskinta school, studied at the Russian Teachers' Institute in Nazareth and the Theological"
"Party.He made banners in honor of Nazim Hikmet's famous poem ""Güneşi içenlerin Türküsü"" or ""Ballad of the Sun Smokers"". Jak Ihmalyan and poet Nazim Hikmet were considered close friends. Jak Ihmalyan soon moved to Beijing, China in 1959. He worked for the Communist radio's and studied Chinese folkloric and contemporary art scene. In 1961, he went to the Soviet Union where he remained for the rest of his life. He worked as an editor for the first two years on the radio. He was appointed as a lecturer at Moscow State University in 1963 in the Institute of Eastern Languages"
"serving as a feature writer for the long-running Liwayway magazine. Rogelio R. Sikat Rogelio Sicat (June 26, 1940 – 1997) sometimes referred to as “Rogelio Sikat”, was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story writer. Sikat is best known for his classic masterpieces particularly Impeng Negro, a short story based on a half-black, half-Filipino boy and Moses, Moses, a play in one act that depicts the social injustices and the abuse of the country's oppressive politicians. He uses ""Sikat"" as a pen name to reflect on his Filipino identity (The Filipino alphabet originally does not have the letter c)"
"this position until his death in 1944. Many institutions in Uzbekistan are named after Hamid Olimjon. A station of Tashkent Metro, a building of Uzbekistan's Writers' Union, Samarkand Province Theater — all are named after him. Hamid Olimjon Hamid Olimjon (sometimes spelled Hamid Alimjan in English) (; ) (12 December 1909 – 3 July 1944) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is considered to be one of the finest twentieth-century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia calls him ""one of the founders of Uzbek Soviet literature"". In addition to writing his"
"locales to develop a language that went beyond the sacred and poetic and was capable of articulating the modern experience. With the rise of the Zionist movement amongst Jews in Europe, Ashkenazi Jews embraced Hebrew literature and began to dominate it for the first time. The foundations of modern Israeli writing were laid by a group of literary pioneers from the Second Aliyah including Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Moshe Smilansky, Yosef Haim Brenner, David Shimoni and Jacob Fichman. Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873–1934) was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet. Bialik"
"from this trend was taken by Nâzım Hikmet, who—during his time as a student in the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1924—was exposed to the modernist poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, which inspired him to start writing verse in a less formal style. Another revolution in Turkish poetry came about in 1941 with the publication of a small volume of verse preceded by an essay and entitled Garip (meaning both ""miserable"" and ""strange""). The authors were Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950), Melih Cevdet Anday (1915–2002), and Oktay Rifat (1914–1988). Explicitly opposing themselves to everything that had gone in poetry before,"
"Ifti Nasim Ifti Nasim (1946 – July 22, 2011) was a gay Pakistani American poet. Having moved to the United States to escape persecution for his sexual orientation, he became known locally for establishing Sangat, an organization to support LGBT south-Asian youths, and internationally for publishing ""Narman"", a poetry collection that was the first open expression of homosexual themes in the Urdu language. Nasim was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1996. Nasim was born in Faisalabad, Pakistan (then called Lyallpur) shortly before independence, a middle child in a large family. As a teenager he"
"Dinanath Nadim Dinanath Nadim (1916–1988) was a prominent Kashmiri poet of the 20th century. He was born on 18 March 1916 in Srinagar city and with him began an era of modern Kashmiri poetry. He also virtually led the progressive writers movement in Kashmir. Rooted to the soil of Kashmir, Nadim's language was spoken Kashmiri, though he initially wrote in Hindi and Urdu as well. He influenced a large group of poets of his age as well as younger than him. Nadim also wrote operas like Vitasta ( Jhelum River ), Safar Taa Shehjaar ( The Journey And The shade"
"February 5. Ceremonies are usually held in Syria, United States, and in various European nations. His most famous poem is titled ""Awake, son of Assyria, awake!"" (ܐܬܬܥܝܪ ܒܪ ܐܬܘܪ ܐܬܬܥܝܪ). Naum Faiq Naum Elias Yaqub Palakh (February 1868 – February 5, 1930), better known as Naum Faiq (, Naˁum Fayëq) was one of the founding fathers of modern Assyrian nationalism during the early 20th century. He was a teacher and writer throughout his life. A Syriac Orthodox Christian, he emphasized the importance of unity among Assyrians and encouraged his community to depart from ""tribal mentality."" He was born in Diyâr-ı"
"most famous Austrian, English, Scottish, Italian, Norwegian, Turkish, and Russian poets, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Eliot, Robert Burns, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov and Osip Mandelstam. <poem style=""margin-left:2em""> More than Anyone Else I can neither be the strongest man in the world, Nor do I want to be. I don't want anyone to be afraid of me. I can neither be the wealthiest man in the world, Nor do I want to be. For me the greatest wealth in the world, is a tiny tent with a smiling face and eyes, with an open door and windows!"